The director of the Louvre has resigned after being blamed for a jewel heist at the Paris museum. Laurence des Cars handed in her resignation to Emmanuel Macron on Tuesday after four months of mounting pressure over the £76m raid.

French President Emmanuel Macron on Tuesday accepted the resignation of the Louvre Museum’s director, who had been under fire in the wake of a stunning heist of the French Crown jewels.

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A definitive ranking of the greatest heist films ever made, from mind-bending crime thrillers to raw classics that reshaped cinema history!

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Crime 101 shows Chris Hemsworth in a new light and also manages to homage classic Steve McQueen movies for a new generation.

A 52-year-old Australian man has been arrested and charged after an "amateurish" and "opportunistic" break-in at an archaeology museum.

A real-time, single-shot heist thriller turns a sloppy prison revenge plan into 70 minutes of escalating chaos and nerve-shredding tension.